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Culture Made Easy

Posted on: December 2nd, 2011 by wmapother No Comments

Suggestion for actors #2,317:  Sign up for email newsletters of your local museums and cultural centers.
Among the many advantages:

•  They often have free events.
•  They’re a great opportunity to make contacts with writers and directors (It was at a reading by Adam Gopnick at LA’s Skirball that I met the NYC director who led me to NYC’s Public Theatre’s Shakespeare Lab which led me to the casting director who thought of me for Another Earth (more on that some other time.  You get the idea.)
•   The events are good to go with a date.  Or someone you want to be a date.
•  Pt. 2 of the line above:  They’re a good place to make contact with a date.
•  Did I mention that some of the events are free?
•  Filmmakers love it when actors see classic movies.  Such as those shown at museum.
•  You don’t have to trust yourself and/or take the time to view their websites.  Actors like it to be easy, right?

Some in L.A. to get you started:
Skirball
LACMA
Hammer
Getty

[This has been another in a continuing series of potentially helpful, hopefully commonsensical information to actors on practicing their craft or surviving while trying to do so.  I bear no responsibility for how this or any of my posts might ruin your life, lead you to law school, or make your parents sick with worry.]

For more suggestions to actors, click the ‘Info to Actors’ category at left.

Posted in Acting Tips & Info, Los Angeles, NYC, Recs

Xmas Gift? Done.

Posted on: November 29th, 2011 by wmapother 3 Comments

Another Earth comes out on DVD today, and it’s the perfect gift for the humanoid in your family.  Or even your other you.  Get it now, before you go ahead and buy it for yourself and then have to regift it back to yourself (this whole “There’s two of me/you” gets old and/or  confusing pretty quickly when mined for laughs..)

Posted in Acting Projects, News & Events, Recs, Video (Online & Home)

Horror on the Horizon

Posted on: November 12th, 2011 by wmapother 1 Comment

Earlier this year I shot a part in the 3D film Static, starring Milo Ventimiglia, Sarah Shahi, and Sara Paxton.  No word yet on the release date, but over to the right’s an early one-sheet, and here’s a little press piece on the movie..

I’ve seen it listed as both horror or thriller?  At a certain point, does it matter?  Hiller or throrror:  Sleepless nights, here I come.

Posted in Acting Projects, Film, Press

Lunchtime Fodder

Posted on: November 2nd, 2011 by wmapother 1 Comment

Notre Dame’s student paper The Observer, inhaled daily all over campus circa noontime, has posted an interview with me in advance of my Another Earth screening and Q&A this Fri at the Debartolo Performing Arts cinema.

Posted in Acting Projects, Film, Interviews and Q&A's, Notre Dame, Press

Ah, South Bend

Posted on: October 30th, 2011 by wmapother No Comments

In anticipation of my Another Earth screenings and Q&A back at Notre Dame this Friday, Nov 4
the South Bend Tribune has published an interview with yours truly..

Posted in Acting Projects, Interviews and Q&A's, Notre Dame, Press